The X-Files Page #4

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THEIR POV:

Stevie's feet are just visible on the floor of the cave,

a short distance away.

RESUME FIREMEN - LOW ANGLE

They start cautiously toward Stevie. CAMERA FINDING

their feet. Tracking through the same OILY, BLACK

SUBSTANCE we saw bleeding from the creature thirty five

thousand years ago. As they move into the shadows, we

HOLD ON THE SUBSTANCE....and see it MOVE. It's alive.

TIME CUT TO:

EXT. DIRT FIELD - SHORT TIME LATER

CAMERA RISES out of the dirt hole, finds A GROUP OF

NEIGHBORS:

Concerned PARENTS, KIDS, including Stevie's friends.

They're held at a distance by the remaining firemen.

Everyone turning their concerned gazes skyward. Looking

at:

A MED-EVAC CHOPPER

Coming off the sun-setting horizon. Moving toward us at

high speed. The WHOP, WHOP of its blade soon shaking the

neighborhood as it banks in and around and hovers just

over the dirt field. Landing gently on the parched hard

scrabble.

The side door flies open and FIVE HAZ-MAT RESCUE

PARAMEDICS jump out carrying a bubble litter. CAMERA

PANS THEM to the dirt hole past THE FIRE CAPTAIN. The

Haz-Mat Paramedics moving down into the hole. The Fire

Captain watches this, then stares toward --

DR. BEN BRONSCHWEIG (in shirtsleeves, tie), exiting the

chopper, following up the rear. The Captain meeting him

in route.

BRONSCHWEIG:

(over the chopper)

Keep those people back. Get them out

of here.

FIRE CAPTAIN:

(to his men)

Move them all back.

(dogging Bronschweig)

I sent four men down after the boy.

They're not responding.

Dr. Bronschweig's focus is elsewhere, though. He's

making a bee line to the earthen hole where young Stevie

is being pulled out and lifted into an enclosed

QUARANTINE BUBBLE LITTER by the rescue squad.

Bronschweig watches with great concern. Getting a good

look now at Stevie's paralyzed body as it passes him.

ANGLE ON CHOPPER

As Stevie's body is loaded aboard, the side door is slid

shut. The engine throttles up and the chopper takes

flight again, almost as quickly as it arrived. The prop

wash blowing:

DR. BRONSCHWEIG

And the gathering crowd. Bronschweig watches the chopper

bank away, then turns his look to:

THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Where A SERIES OF UNMARKED CARGO VANS, TRUCKS are

rolling in. A fleet of vehicles, driven by what looks

like MILITARY PERSONNEL. Most conspicuously TWO WHITE

UNMARKED TANKER TRUCKS. (There are NO MARKINGS on these

vehicles.)

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